On the Vital Signs cover.

The Waterloo Region's second Vital Signs report is out. I'm proud to be able to contribute in taking the vital signs pulse of the Region through the lenses of my cameras.

From my perspective I've seen in the last year more vital signs than in the previous one. There were so many festival/events (many new ones) that I had trouble keeping up with.

I'm also lucky that for the second time I'm a winner in the Vital Signs photo contest. One of my pictures "High Flying Objects" won the third prize. You can see it in the top right corner of the cover of Waterloo Region's Vital Signs 2008 brochure [PDF].

The photo was taken during Canada Day 141th anniversary celebrations from the University of Waterloo's (UW) Columbia Lake Fields having in the background the Accelerator Centre building in the Research and Technology Park.

As last year the local newspaper The Record covered the event and published an advertising issue with the photos in the October 7th issue.

I also took a video clip of the high flying objects in motion and embedded it in the below Canada Day video montage.

Vital Signs, such a great initiative to take the community's pulse!

Raising knowledge barns in Waterloo Region.

Everything is in place: the tradition, inspiration, vision, spirit, design, foundation, measurement scale, people and enthusiasm.

Just let the time do the work of making the Waterloo Region the knowledge capital of Canada.

One year since the launch of this noble goal is a good time to look back and see if the Waterloo Region is on course.

Let the knowledge barns raising begin!

Yours truly, in The Record.

Ok, some people complained that the vital signs photos published in the Waterloo Region's Vital Signs Report, are too small. Well, it looks like the local newspaper The Record (partner in the Vital Signs initiative) decided to shed more light on those pictures by dedicating them a whole newspaper page. Check them out, if curious, on page E8 in the October 20th issue of The Record.

Thank you Vital Signs and The Record!

Five Vital Signs Photo Awards!

The first Vital Signs report that takes the pulse of the Waterloo Region, has been released. I'm proud that I was able to contribute to this report with 33 photos. Five of them have been awarded and included in the printed report [pdf]. See all of them on page 29 and individual enlarged on page 13 and 24.

The picture on page 13 shows Kaufman lofts reflection in the windows of TD Canada Trust Bank on King Street in Downtown Kitchener while the picture on page 24 was taken on University of Waterloo's campus.

A TV broadcast of the Town Hall debate on the first Vital Sign report will be shown on the local TV channel on Sunday, October 7th at 6:30 pm as part of the regular weekly Province Wide shows.